ADO vs. ADO.

NET

ADO

ADO.NET

Business
Model

Connection-oriented
Models used mostly

Disconnected models are

used: Message-like Models

Disconnected
Access

Provided by Record set

Provided by Data Adapter

and Data set

XML Support

Limited

Robust Support

Connection
Model

Client application needs

to be connected always
to data-server while
working on the data

Client disconnected as soon

as the data is processed.
DataSet is disconnected at
all times

Data Passing

ADO objects
communicate in binary
mode

ADO.NET uses XML for

passing the data

ADO

ADO.NET

Control of data
access behaviors

Includes implicit behaviors

that may not always be
required in an application
and that may therefore
limit performance

Provides well-defined,
factored components
with predictable
behavior, performance,
and semantics

Design-time
support

Derives information about

data implicitly at run time,
based on metadata that is
often expensive to obtain

Leverages known
metadata at design
time in order to
provide better run-time
performance and more
consistent run-time
behavior

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